Leach v. Leach
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, under R. L. c. 141, § 10, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court on August 20, 1917. The suit was referred to a master. Material findings of the master are described in the opinion.
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Bill in equity, under R. L. c. 141, § 10, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court on August 20, 1917. The suit was referred to a master. Material findings of the master are described in the opinion. “On the facts found by the master,” Carroll, J., who heard the suit on the pleadings and the master’s report, was “of opinion that the creditor was not chargeable-with culpable negligence, and justice and equity require that judgment should be entered for the petitioner in the sum of $3,039.16 with interest from January 14, 1916;” and by his order a final decree was entered accordingly. The defendant…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C. J.
The salient facts are that the defendant’s intestate, formerly of Pittsburgh in the State of Pennsylvania, removed his domicil to this Commonwealth in 1910 and died here in 1912. The defendant, his widow, was appointed administratrix of his estate by the Probate Court of Plymouth County on August 26, 1912. The plaintiff, a resident of the State of New York and a creditor of the defendant’s intestate, hearing in November, 1912, of his death, immediately engaged counsel in Pittsburgh. She then learned that domiciliary administration had been taken out upon his estate in Massachusetts, but that…
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